and there is little doubt about the name; we get that from the fragments
of the other papers; it is the BRITANNIA. As to the next two words,
GONIE and AUSTRAL, it is only AUSTRAL that has any meaning to us."

"But that is a valuable scrap of information," said John Mangles.
"The shipwreck occurred in the southern hemisphere."

"That's a wide world," said the Major.

"Well, we'll go on," resumed Glenarvan. "Here is the word ABOR; that is
clearly the root of the verb ABORDER. The poor men have landed somewhere;
but where? CONTIN--does that mean continent? CRUEL!"

"CRUEL!" interrupted John Mangles. "I see now what GRAUS
is part of in the second document. It is GRAUSAM, the word
in German for CRUEL!"

"Let's go on," said Lord Glenarvan, becoming quite excited over his task,
as the incomplete words began to fill up and develop their meaning.
"INDI,--is it India where they have been shipwrecked?
And what can this word ONGIT be part of? Ah! I see--it is LONGITUDE;
and here is the latitude, 37 degrees 11". That is the precise
indication at last, then!"

"But we haven't the longitude," objected McNabbs.

"But we can't get everything, my dear Major; and it
is something at all events, to have the exact latitude.
The French document is decidedly the most complete of the three;
but it is plain enough that each is the literal translation of